Collaborate Disseminate
GoDaddy worked with researchers to shut down 15,000 domain-shadowing websites tied to bogus affiliate marketing offers promoted via spam campaigns. Continue reading GoDaddy Shutters 14,000 Subdomains Tied to ‘Snake Oil’ Scams
Godaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. But several more recent malware spam campaigns suggest GoDaddy’s fix hasn’t gone far enough, and that scammers likely still have a sizable arsenal of hijacked GoDaddy domains at their disposal. Continue reading Crooks Continue to Exploit GoDaddy Hole
A bomb threat spam campaign that hit North America last month may have been engineered using a flaw in GoDaddy’s domain management process, it was revealed this week. Continue reading Bomb threat spam may stem from GoDaddy DNS weakness
Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months — including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools, businesses and government buildings late last year — were made possible thanks to an authentication weakness at GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
Perhaps more worryingly, experts warn this same weakness that let spammers hijack domains registered through GoDaddy also affects a great many other major Internet service providers, and is actively being abused to launch phishing and malware attacks which leverage dormant Web site names currently owned and controlled by some of the world’s most trusted corporate names and brands. Continue reading Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com
Configuration data for GoDaddy servers could be used as a reconnaissance tool for malicious actors to uncover ripe targets. Continue reading GoDaddy Leaks ‘Map of the Internet’ via Amazon S3 Cloud Bucket Misconfig
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Unsecure AWS S3 Bucket Claims Another Victim—This Time it is GoDaddy. GoDaddy is the latest victim of cybercriminals and has joined the league of companies that got confidential data leaked due to unsecure Amazon S3 buckets. The world’s leadin… Continue reading Sensitive data on 31,000 GoDaddy servers exposed online
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The malware targets trusted Google sites. The metadata fields of images uploaded on trusted Content Delivery Network (CDN) of Google have been embedded with malicious code by hackers to compromise websites. This approach is indeed damaging bec… Continue reading GoogleUserContent CDN Hosting Images Infected with Malware
News have broken out during the weekend that the hosting provider DomainFactory that is owned by the GoDaddy provider has been hacked, resulting in tons of information leaking and even the hacker posting a note after the breach. The company…Read more… Continue reading DomainFactory Hosting Provider Suffers Devastating Data Breach – Change Passwords Now
Besides Timehop, another data breach was discovered last week that affects users of one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, DomainFactory, owned by GoDaddy.
The breach initially happened back in last January this year and just emerged las… Continue reading DomainFactory Hacked—Hosting Provider Asks All Users to Change Passwords
A botnet called Brain Food is pushing diet pills via infected WordPress and Joomla websites. Continue reading Malicious PHP Script Infects 2,400 Websites in the Past Week